Turning Off GPU Acceleration In Google Chrome

I am currently working on a strange device that has a frankenstein
mutated version of WebKit. The browser doesn’t support hardware
acceleration, so I was looking for a way to turn it off in Google Chrome
for debugging purposes.

I ran into
this
excellent site that lists all of the command-line arguments that
Chromium takes, and a few of them apply to turning off the GPU:

--disable-accelerated-layers: Disables the hardware acceleration
of 3D CSS and animation

Launching Chrome with these options gave me an experience more like the
device I am working on, which greatly helped in performance
optimization.

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